Karl Rove gets all the attention, but Politico argues that the guy who’s really pulling the strings behind the Republican-boosting outside spending effort is a little-known Republican operative named Carl Forti:
Forti has played a critical role in shaping the ad campaigns of two of the biggest-spending outside groups
The House leadership may not be ready to pressure embattled Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.) to step down, but his colleagues are starting to amp up their criticism. Yesterday Democratic Rep. Walt Minnick of Idaho joined Rep. Betty Sutton (D-Ohio) in saying that the veteran congressman should resign from the More…
I’ve spotlighted retired Lt. Col. Allen West as one of the GOP’s most credible African-American candidates for Congress this year–he lost a 2008 bid in his Florida district by 10 points, but is getting full support from the National Republican Congressional Committee this time. West’s response to the More…
A terrifying headline from the NRCC, blasting Rep. Harry Teague (D-N.M.):
Harry Teague Stumps for Change He Doesn’t Believe In: Teague Dismissed Climate Change but Fundraises With Radical Global Warming Activist
The “radical global warming activist” is … Secretary of Energy Stephen Chu, winner of the 1997 Nobel Prize More…
Hastings Wyman has a good piece up at the Southern Political Report, talking to Oklahoma strategists about the NRCC’s eyebrow-raising inclusion of Rep. Dan Boren (D-Okla.) on their target list. The five Republicans who’ve thrown their hats into the ring present basically no threat to Boren; one is a More…
Glenn Thrush reports on how the National Republican Congressional Committee is attacking Democrats over President Obama’s comment that Sgt. Joseph Crowley and Cambridge police “acted stupidly” in arresting Prof. Henry Louis Gates Jr. for breaking into his own home and then complaining about the police showing up to investigate. More…
From The Minnesota Independent:
The National Republican Congressional Committee has added another Minnesota representative to its list of most vulnerable incumbents for 2010: Rep. Michele Bachmann [R-Minn.] joins Rep. Erik Paulsen [R-Minn.] in the NRCC’s “Patriot Program,” Roll Call reports.
The NRCC announced
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